Abstract: Coating and shaping of strand-shaped metallic material by drawing using lubricants in solid to liquid state is disclosed. The disclosed method and arrangement enables high-performance shaping while decisively reducing expenditure on apparatus. At the same time, sealing problems with respect to lubricant are eliminated and several technical parameters in the shaping and coating process are improved depending on the material to be shaped. The shaping stock is coated with lubricant by a double chamber arrangement comprising a low-pressure lubricant chamber followed by a high-pressure lubricant chamber and is shaped by means of working drawing dies at the outputs of the chambers. The low-pressure chamber is filled with solid to pasty lubricant by a lubricant feed and a low pressure is applied to this lubricant externally.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns the field of metallurgy and relates to a method and device for use in the forming of wire-shaped metal material, in particular in wire drawing. To form and/or coat wire-shaped metal material with solid to paste-consistency lubricants, the material is passed through a pressure chamber fitted with at least one inlet nozzle and at least one outlet nozzle. Located in the pressure chamber is a solid to paste-consistency lubricant which is under pressure. The pressure is set and/or regulated and raised by means of an external pressure-generation unit. The combined pressure/temperature setting used for the lubricant is always kept below the level at which the lubricant would liquefy. The lubricant is used as a powder or in the form of shaped articles, preferably compacts, pellets or granules, and fed to the pressure chamber from lubricant-storage facilities through feed channels.

Abstract: A process of applying and drying a liquid lubricant on a metallic material to be mechanically worked has the steps of passing a metallic material through a coating container with a lubricant so that the lubricant coats the metallic material and the latter exits from the coating container through an opening, removing the superfluous portion of the lubricant without contacting the same with outside air, and advancing the lubricant coated metallic material through a drying channel in which air is urged in disturbed state. An arrangement for performing the method is also provided.

Abstract: An improved process for cold mechanical working of metallic materials is disclosed, in which a lubricant containing salts of carboxylic acids with more than ten, and preferably 15 to 20, carbon atoms. The lubricant also contains at least one organic solvent with a boiling point below 200.degree. C., and preferably at least one organic solvent with a boiling point below 30.degree. C. In a preferred embodiment, tensides are added to reduce surface tension. The lubricant combines the advantages of solid and liquid lubricants, and permits the cold mechanical working of materials with high tensile strength.